Some thoughts on the ending of Look Back. This film is only an hour long but it sticks with ya! Spoilers ahead of course! Watch the movie and read the comic and form your own feelings before reading ahead!
People love to ask, disingenuously,"Why don't Palestinians protest peacefully?" Here's an elder, protecting children, non-violently. Israeli soldiers killed him in revenge. There's nothing Palestinians can do that Israelis will find peaceful.
Been hearing some beautiful takes from artists on how LOOK BACK has inspired them to create. Here are a few more films you should watch to keep that creative spark lit. 🧵✨
Good morning, a year has passed since the genocide in Gaza. This post will serve as a documentation of the Israeli occupation’s crimes over the past year, and as an archive for us to keep.
Share this post and contribute in the comments with an image or a story that you can never forget.
🚨🔴 BREAKING: Federico Chiesa to Liverpool, here we go! Agreement done for €13m initial fee with add-ons.
Four year contract for Chiesa as new Liverpool player, set to fly later today.
Chiesa accepted Liverpool immediately. Deal DONE.
Exclusive story confirmed. 🔐🇮🇹
So I looked into this. I thought maybe I should feel sorry for the woman, athletes can choke, and maybe it was cruel for people to be making fun of her. Alternatively, I thought it may be possible she was led up the garden path, told she was good break dancer when she wasn’t, and I can’t imagine anything more humiliating than realising you are in fact not a talented athlete on the world stage.
Turns out Rachael Gunn here has a PhD in cultural studies, with a speciality in the gender politics of movement and breakdance. She has written about how including break dance in the Olympics changes it from a practice within an alternative subculture, to a hegemonic one that incorporates the dance into what she sees as Australia’s settler colonialist project. I am 100% certain what she is doing here, in wearing the Australia kit even, is trying to make some subversive point she can later write journal articles about.
This whole episode is demonstrative of the supreme selfishness of woke identity politics studies. Her little stunt diminishes Australia on the world stage. Hundreds of Australian athletes who will have dedicated their entire lives to athletic excellence will be forgotten, because Rachael wanted to bulk up her ResearchGate profile. Rather than their medals and efforts, this is what Australia will be remembered for.
Not to mention the disastrous effect this will have on break dancing as a sport. Its position in the Olympics is not secure, and surely won’t be taken seriously after this. Good job Rachael, you really showed those chauvinist nationalists, hundreds of women and girls will not get their Olympic opportunity now.
Rachael represents so much of what is totally lecherous about cultural studies academics. Pick a subject area that will be under-studied in your context, so you can rise through the ranks quickly (how many break dancing academics will there be in Australia?), and wreak absolute havoc in lives of the people you want to study. There is no limit to the sheer disrespect they will dole out, purely for self-advancement.
I'm a game dev. I didn't know how to code so I learned. I didn't know how to write music so I learned. When I didn't know how to animate, I learned. If someone thinks they need to resort to using generative ai to bring a vision to life it didn't deserve to live
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Thiago Alcantara has decided to retire from professional football.
Former Barça, Bayern, Liverpool and Spain player has made his decision.
Thiago’s passion and love for the game continues as he’s ready for new chapter in football after few months planning for it.
in the last few days I’ve seen the face of a baby in gaza separated from the rest of their body, the jaw falling off a little girl, the guts spilling out of another girl, a mutilated child hanging off debris, five journalists killed…but they want you to be mad at a palestine pin